02631nam a22003618i 4500 44097 44097 39025 BD-DhAAL 20220627110552.0 220627t2021 nyu b 001 0 eng d 2021025790 9780241585184 9780374157357 DLC eng rda DLC BD-DhAAL pcc CB19 .G69 2021 901 23 Graeber, David, author. 49705 The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity / David Graeber and David Wengrow. London : Allen Lane, 2021. xii, 691 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Farewell to humanity's childhood, Or, why this is not a book about the origins of inequality -- Wicked liberty: The indigenous critique and the myth of progress -- Unfreezing the Ice Age: In and out of chains: the protean possibilities of human politics -- Free people, the origin of cultures, and the advent of private property (not necessarily in that order) -- Many seasons ago: Why Canadian foragers kept slaves and their Californian neighbours didn't; or, the problem with 'modes of production' -- Gardens of Adonis: The revolution that never happened: how Neolithic peoples avoided agriculture -- The ecology of freedom: How farming first hopped, stumbled and bluffed its way around the world -- Imaginary cities: Eurasia's first urbanites - in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Ukraine and China - and how they built cities without kings -- Hiding in plain sight: The indigenous origins of public housing and democracy in the Americas -- Why the state has no origin: The humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy, and politics -- Full circle: On the historical foundations of the indigenous critique -- Conclusion: The dawn of everything. "A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution-from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality-and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation"-- ESS Civilization Philosophy. 49706 Social history. 49707 World history. 49708 Wengrow, D., author. 49709 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2022-06-23 Book Finder International 1588.83 2 40 901 GRA 3010039025 2026-07-27 2026-02-18 2026-02-18 1 1588.83 2022-06-23 BK